How to Repair Your Marriage After One Partner Cheats

Affairs are atom bombs. They implode marriages, upend lives, ruin careers, and wither reputations. The fallout is awful. But, if you’re genuinely sorry and willing to put in the effort, it is possible to save your marriage. This requires humility, self-awareness, hard work, and, most of all honesty.

Even before an affair reaches its explosive place, it takes a severe emotional toll on the one doing the cheating. And, if you cheated (c’mon, man) and want to save your marriage, it’s essential to recognize — and react to — how those emotions manifest.